322. The 6 Principles of Resilient Behavior | Robin Kelson | Good Seed Company

Friday • June 12, 2020

Recently Robin Kelson from the Good Seed Company was on the Beauty of Conflict Podcast

• What disruptive change is and why it can be a good thing.
• How we can tap into the intelligence and resilience in our bodies.
• What six behaviors we need to become more resilient.
• How we can thrive in the aftermath of the coronavirus.
• Why collaboration and cooperation are crucial to our existence.
• Why engaging the prefrontal cortex will enable us to be more resilient.
• Why we, as humans, are not as individual or unique as we might think!

I can't believe we didn't see each other at Free The Seeds. I was downstairs trying to promote the Organic Oasis Guidebook. I have been so busy. School got out and my goal was to clean for 3 days and be done at noon today for this podcast and then relax before I start my new job for Gregg Clunis of Tiny Leaps on Monday. I have been listening to my new favorite podcast the Clutterbug!

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Tell us a little about yourself.

Sure! I have worn many hats among them as a biochemist and attorney with an expertise in intellectual property law so I come with that background, and I have always been really interested in what constitutes resiliency, although I didn't call it that back then.

I got interested in what was the core of what I saw about 30 years ago an epidemic of chronic disorders in our culture

physical bodies and impacts on our bodies. I didn't understand it, and I couldn't get any satisfaction from the

• western
• medical
• chemical

scientific approach

I looked into it, i’ve led lots of

• creating soil enhancements
• re-nourishing the soil
• now as the owner of the Good Seed Co that sells heirloom seeds adapted to our region in montana where we live and particularly in the

selecting and saving and sharing seeds for common use

without eating we are not nourished and we don’t keep the species going

I’m also a co-executive director of AEROMT

just metal to the petal particularly in response to the covid epidemic and it's impact on the food system in Montana, all the work so many of our organizations have been doing on resiliency and sustainability

every single Montanan has ben impacted by it

opportunity to regrow our own food supply

1950 we grew about 70% of our own food and now it's down to about 7%

a little bit about me

in my journey as you mentioned

a curiosity about resiliency

examples that exist in nature. I have been studying that because it intrigues me for 30 years. I have been talking about it recently from my own perspective there's some really good systems for developing a resiliency. I call it

developing resiliency intelligence.

I didn't really hear the term resiliency till you and I went to the